Honey-Roasted Nuts and Fruit Recipe | MyRecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- Cooking spray
- 1 teaspoon butter
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 cup slivered almonds
- 1/4 cup chopped hazelnuts
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- 1/4 cup sunflower seed kernels
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
- Dash of ground cloves
- 1 cup raisins
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or foil; coat with cooking spray.
- Heat butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in honey; cook 2 minutes or until mixture bubbles around edges of pan. Add almonds and next 7 ingredients; cook over medium heat 8 minutes or until nuts are golden, stirring frequently. Stir in raisins. Immediately spread onto prepared baking sheet; cool completely.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Honey, Nuts.
Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060). Honey, of...
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